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A Quaker Action Group Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-074
Scope and Contents A Quaker Action Group (AQAG) records in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection include minutes, correspondence (1966-1971), memoranda, financial records, subject files (organizations), research files (topics), project files, newsletters, press releases, statements of Quaker yearly meetings in various cities, clippings, photographs and sound recordings. The files were first processed in 1974, and then again in 1980. In 2004, archival intern, Joe Clark, sorted the papers into the present...
Dates: 1965-1973

Bent Andresen Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Andreson, Bent
Abstract

Bent Andresen registered as a conscientious objector (CO) during World War Two and was sent to a Civilian Public Service in 1944. Andresen participated in a guinea pig project in which he and several other COs lived in a refrigerated room for three months to test the impact of a high-protein diet on cold-weather conditions. He went AWOL in 1945 and was sentenced to two years in prison. Andreson was involved in various peace and justice groups throughout his lifetime.

Dates: 1928-1991

Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick Collected Records

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick
Abstract

Collection includes brochures and flyers, printed correspondence, and pamphlets about the Appeal and Vigil; also includes two short unpublished histories of Fort Detrick, and news clippings about Fort Detrick's conversion in 1969 from offensive biological warfare to cancer research.

Dates: 1959-1961; 1971-1973

Albert Bigelow Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-076
Abstract

Albert S. Bigelow (1906-1993) was an artist, architect, former Navy commander, and Quaker. He served as captain of Golden Rule, a thirty foot ketch which he and colleagues attempted to sail into the Eniwetok Proving Grounds, the U.S. nuclear test site in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific in February 1958. The action was sponsored by the Committee for Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons.

Dates: 1956-1961

Horace Champney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-166
Abstract

Horace Champney was a pacifist active in various causes from the late 1940s through the 1980s. He was a founder of The Peacemakers Movement in the 1950s and interested in civil rights, war tax refusal, and other social justice causes. Champney was a member A Quaker Action Group and a crew member of the ship the Phoenix, which sailed to North Vietnam with medical supplies, during the Vietnam war.

Dates: 1958-1990; Majority of material found within 1958-1979

Charles C. Walker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-296
Abstract

Minutes, reports, writings, notes, photographs, and printed material from Walker's work as an activist and nonviolent resistance trainer. Materials have been place in series based on how the subjects were identified in their original boxes.

Dates: 1940-2000

Norman R. Morrison Collected Papers

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Morrison, Norman R.
Dates: 1965-1968, 1985

Lee Stern Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-170
Abstract

Lee Stern (1915-1992), was a Quaker pacifist, conscientious objector to war, involved in peace groups and organizations, and a teacher of nonviolence.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1936-1992

George Willoughby and Lillian Willoughby Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-236
Abstract

George Willoughby (December 9, 1914 - January 5, 2010) and Lillian Willoughby (c. 1916 - January 15, 2009) were Quaker activists who took part in nonviolent protests against war, conducted nonviolence trainings in India and other countries, and advocated for preservation of land in New Jersey and elsewhere.

Dates: 1931-2010

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Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 8
Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 4
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Government, Resistance to -- History -- Sources 3
Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Government, Resistance to 2
Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 2
War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Antinuclear movement 1
Antinuclear movement -- Nevada -- History -- Sources 1
Atomic bomb -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
Atomic bomb -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 1
Atomic bomb -- Testing 1
Atomic bomb -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
Chester County (Pa.) 1
Civil disobedience 1
Civil disobedience -- History -- Sources 1
Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Civil rights demonstrations 1
Civil rights demonstrations -- Alabama -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objectors 1
Direct action -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Eniwetok Proving Grounds (Marshall Islands) 1
Environmentalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) -- History 1
Government, Resistance to -- Maryland -- Frederick 1
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Nonviolence -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 1
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Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
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Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Peace walks and marches -- History 1
Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Poor People's Campaign 1
Prisoners' writings, American 1
Psychologists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers 1
Quakers -- Maryland -- Frederick -- History 1
Quakers -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- Ohio -- Yellow Springs -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- United States -- History 1
Society of Friends -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
United States 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 1
Women political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1
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Language
Spanish; Castilian 1
 
Names
A Quaker Action Group 4
Reynolds, Earle L. 4
American Friends Service Committee 2
Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 2
Champney, Horace 2
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Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 2
Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 2
Golden Rule (Ketch) 2
Lakey, George 2
Lyttle, Bradford 2
Morrison, Norman R., 1933-1965 2
Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 2
Shivers, Lynne 2
Stern, Lee, 1915-1992 2
Walker, Charles C. 2
Willoughby, George, pacifist 2
Zietlow, Carl P. 2
Ahimsa Farm 1
Alternatives to Violence Project 1
Andresen, Bent, 1908-1991 1
Anh, Le Thi 1
Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
Ashley, Bruce 1
Axford, Roger W. 1
Beheiren 1
Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 1
Bigelow, Sylvia 1
Braxton, John Worth 1
Bromley, Ernest 1
Butterworth, Harrison 1
Canadian Friends Service Committee 1
Champney, Beulah 1
Champney, Ken 1
Children's Creative Response to Conflict Program 1
Civilian Public Service 1
Clark, Joseph S. 1
Coffin, Jerry D. 1
Cowley, Christopher 1
Delaware Valley Land Trust 1
Drath, Phillip 1
Dye, Arthur M. 1
Eaton, Robert Whittington 1
Ede, Roderick 1
Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee 1
Friends Coordinating Committee on Peace (U.S.) 1
Geiger, Nicola 1
Geiger, Walton 1
Herter, Christian Archibald, 1895-1966 1
Horton, Robert, 1900-1991 1
Huntington, William R. 1
Kalish, Donald 1
Langston, Beach, -1979 1
Lee, Kenneth, 1944- 1
Legg, Samuel 1
Levering, Robert, 1944- 1
Massar, Ivan 1
McReynolds, David 1
Mimms, William R. 1
Moody, Roger 1
Movement for a New Society 1
Nelson, Beryl Herbert 1
New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization) 1
Parkman, Patricia 1
Peace Brigades International 1
Peace and Social Action Program 1
Peacemaker Movement 1
Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 1
Phoenix (Yacht) 1
Quaker Project on Community Conflict of the New York Yearly Meeting 1
Rocket, Writer 1
Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 1
Smiley, Glenn E. 1
Squire, DeCourcy 1
Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) 1
Swann, Marjorie 1
United States. War Relocation Authority 1
Vietnam Moratorium Committee (U.S.) 1
Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
Warren, Emlyn 1
Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 1
Willoughby, Lillian, 1915-2009 1
Wise, Christine, -1933 1
Wood, J. Duncan (John Duncan) 1
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